The Madness & The Mission
Words written for an up-and-coming counter-culture artist who wanted an aggressive critique on the current state of the zeitgeist to contextualise the importance and relevance of their art in today’s society. The monologue would be dramatically orated as part of their immersive art exhibition.
We live in a society where the human condition is at its most fragile.
We are on the brink of the dissolution of identity, self and soul.
We teeter on the edge of a cataclysmic and dystopian reality the likes of which we can never return from.
Do you feel it? The madness? It’s all around us.
The business behemoths of the world have been streamlined, optimised, weaponised and are out for addiction.
“Choose us!”, they cry.
The greatest minds of our generation stand on the shoulders of giants only to crush what they stood for. They no longer fight for our freedoms or the advancement of the human race - they work together to exploit it, to corrupt it.
They short circuit the brain, hijack the mind and kidnap the body, holding the soul to ransom.
Click, click, click. Consume, consume, consume. More, more, more!
We have been socialised, programmed and brainwashed, our value is now one of conversion metrics - this is the new reality.
Immobilised at the sight of this tsunami of toxic abundance that screams towards us, we are offered everything we want and everything we don’t, with a whole world at our feet we keep it only a finger tap away.
We are overexposed, oversensitised, overloaded and outnumbered.
We never stood a chance.
Society rides one deep and darkening helter-skelter of insecurity, vanity and virtual insanity - devoid of morality, as the autonomous drones that we have become hunt and scrounge for that next dose of dopamine.
It has created a twisted realm of fake news and fake lives with a population anaesthetised.
Filtered, edited, tweaked and tuned.
Nothing real, nothing true, a pantomime of no virtues, by you to hide the real you.
Humans no longer dance to the beat of loving hearts but for the seduction of algorithms.
Courted, escorted, time and travel bought for it.
Click me, like me, swipe me, hype me.
We have become numb.
Leaving us detached, adrift and drowning in a sea of meaningless apathy that perpetuates both this illusionment and the atrophy of the soul.
It would be a comedy if it wasn’t such a tragedy.
NOW, MY MISSION IS TO TEAR THIS WORLD DOWN.
To liberate those trapped in this corrosive and fresh hell.
My mission is to make you FEEL again.
Shock you, shake you, break you. Break through you!
ARE YOU EVEN ALIVE?
DO YOU EVEN HAVE ANYTHING LEFT IN THERE?
Yes, yes you do.
There’s still hope and there’s still time.
I create tools of resistance.
Weapons in the fight for your renaissance.
I am not here to whisper softly, I am here to sledgehammer your soul!
WAKE UP!
It’s time to upset the established order and welcome in a new era of emotional anarchy.
Immerse yourself in the full human experience!
Laugh, cry, cherish, scream, rejoice, explode with light and love. Sob uncontrollably.
FEEL EVERYTHING!
Scream from the inside out and dance in the flames of uncontrollable, outrageous, raging emotion.
Let’s burn this monolith of madness down to the ground and may the blazing and brilliant fires of our destruction, light the way for those to follow in our path.
The new world awaits us!